Well , I thought I was a little savey using the computer but I am wrong. Today the computer gremlin is laughing at me. I have received a travel grant to a conference in Philadelphia and I needed to register in a short period of time to accept or they would pass it to the next person. I was finally unable to register and after numerous emails and calls, I finally got approved. Then on to accepting and putting up a notice on a message board to share the room which is part of the contingency when accepting the travel grant for room and conference and again I was unable to register as user name/ and or password was not right. Again, phone call after phone call and no luck. I then left messages and went on to get my flight and after researching and researching for times and cost, I found what I figured was a great deal and put in to book it and ask for an aisle seat as my legs just don't fit behind a regular seat as I need part of the aisle. I got registered finally but couldn't register aisle and then when I was closing all the windows, I found a flight about $25 cheaper but my first ticket is non refundable, non-transferable and anything else so the cost is the higher one of the two so now I am feeling totally defeated. In the mean time I had to order something on line that needed shipped and I made the error of not seeing the box that had it marked to ship and bill to the same address so once again, I messed up. It might have something to do with interrupted sleep as my big dog ( the golden retriever) is deathly afraid of storms and after up and down of the bed and pacing and crying, I found him in the bathtub this morrning. This is not even a usual occurrence as far as his fear but in the bathtub, well that is a whole different story. Things were quickly put in perspective though when I had a patient talk about her up and down numbers for her cancer and what that means to her and another gentleman who had seen my program on TV and realized that we are all more alike in this walk than different and many of my thoughts have been his. Sometimes we just need to know we are not alone (even with a computer). Making the day better, moment by moment. s
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AuthorMy name is Sue Kilburn and I am a clinical nurse breast cancer educator at the Yolanda G. Barco Oncology Institute in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Archives
March 2015
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